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RILE issue nº 12 for the year 2024 has as its opening text the article by Françoise
Besson Drinking water as a luxury? From René Dumont’s warnings in the 1970s to current
water crises throughout the world. The relevance of the article is due to the fact that it brings
to environmental humanities a European, more precisely French, contextualization of
philosophical considerations, as for example, that a simple drink in our daily lives, such as a
glass of coca-cola, can be related to water pollution or its scarcity, through industries. In this
article, the author highlights the influence of human actions on problems relating to water in
the world and the consequences, but also shows that there can be changes from the moment
people become aware of these problems and change their behavior, aiming to reverse such a
degradation process.